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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

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I am Iridescent on Twitter but some random took that here. François Mitterrand retire bitch. (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · Jan 31

Another day volunteering at the UCL museum. Everyone keeps asking me if they can fuck Jeremy Bentham's corpse. Buddy, they won't even let me fuck it.

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 30m

Quentin Tarantino presents: the Van Gogh Immersive Experience, sponsored by John Paul Getty III.

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 18h

Saw this today.

Stańczyk, a painting of a sad jester in a red costume https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sta%C5%84czyk_(painting)

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 20h

Embracing Polish culture with this traditional dinner.

A picture of a small coffee table that looks like a cafeteria tray with two glasses of soda water, two shots of vodka and a small plate with a small number of pickled cucumbers.

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 20h

Bought another big tomato, this time green, and it's one of the most delicious tomatoes I have eaten.

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 1d

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 1d

Being in Poland means everything is pictures of Chopin and they play Chopin everywhere and I just keep thinking of this comic. (See also: going to Hungary for the Liszt equivalent.)

Hark a Vagrant's Chopin and Liszt comic http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=302

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 1d

Copernicus!

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 1d

I found the problem with AI: they trained all the image generation on this cartoon.

Cartoon of Chopin where he has far too many fingers

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jaythechou.bsky.social @jaythechou.bsky.social · 2d

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1673

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 2d

It's cool that the EU invented plastic drink bottles that are annoying to open AND impossible to close again. This will definitely help the environment.

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Saoirse ☀️ @scratchcarddust.bsky.social · 5d

If you know basic kabbalah it's actually not too hard to make a golem out of a labubu. Don't recommend it though. They have a pre-existing body-dharma. As soon as they wake they run straight for the sea. V hard to counter. Lost the first one. No idea what it's doing out there. Moved like lightning.

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder that this is the upcoming Friday (17 October) so if you don't hate me and are in London you should come. 🥂 🍻

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 7d

Hello friends/well wishers/not actually enemies of me and/or @johnb78.bsky.social we will be in London next Friday 17th doing drinks in Shoreditch. DM one or other or both of us for pub name. 🥂 🍻

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 2d

I love wine. 🍷

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 2d

I respect the conceit but these are awful drinks.

Cocktail menu of a Ukrainian restaurant which has made cocktails in the colours of the Ukrainian flag which is not conducive to good cocktails as it needs to be blue and yellow. They are really quite cheap though. There is also a Joe Biden and Boris Johnson which sound less awful but that's not a high bar.

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 2d

I love wine bars. 🍷

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 3d

Went to the steelworks and saw some communism.

A big sign for the Huta im Sendzimira steelworks

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 3d

And I say this having actually enjoyed Sunset Boulevard. I just didn't think it was a good idea.

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 3d

Really can't disagree with this.

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 3d

Salty.

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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 3d

I actually know most of the songs from the movie because it was really popular when I was in primary school... BUT I don't want to pay $150 to watch a musical version of a silly movie I liked when I was 7 because that's insane.